Javadoc in 9 seems to treat all interfaces with only one method as functional interfaces

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Mar 17 20:25:17 UTC 2014


On 17/03/2014 16:28, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> While playing with JDK 9 javadoc command I noticed that it
> seems to treat all single method interfaces as if they were
> functional interfaces - even though they don't have the
> @FunctionalInterface annotation.
>
> For instance - I did 'make docs' - and I'm seeing this text
> in the javadoc for 'java.awt.event.ActionListener':
>
> >>
> Functional Interface:
>     This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the 
> assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
> <<
>
> Is that a known issue, or a new regression, or did I miss something?
Is this JDK-8029143? From what I can tell, it hasn't been forward ported 
to jdk9/dev yet.

-Alan.



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